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THIRTIETH CONGRESS— SECOND SESSION. 
Ex. Doc. No. 24. 

liOUSE OF EEPRESEWTATIVT^S. 



NUMBER, ETC., OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN THE NAVAL 
AND MARINE SERVICE IN THC MEXICAN WAR, 



LETTER 

FF.OM TlIK 

SECRETARY OF TME NAVY, 



IK ANSWER TO 



.^ resolution of the House of the 20th December, IS^S, relative U 
the number and places of birth of persons employed in the navai 
and marine service on the Gulf and Pacific coasts during tht 
Mexican war. • ' 



January 6, 1849, 

Lfiii upon the table, and ordereJ to be printed. 



Navy Department, 
January 5, 1849. 

Sir: I liave the iionor.-to acknowledge the receipt of a resolution 
of the House of Representatives, of the 20th December, 1848, re- 
questing the Secretary of the Navy to communicate to that bod|r 
" the number and places of birth of all persons employed in the 
naval and marine service on the Gulf and Pacific coasts during the 
late war with Mexico." 

No register of recruits having been kepi at the department pre- 
vious to June, 1816, full information, as required by the resoIutioHj 
cannot, as it respects seamen, be communicated in a satisfactory 
form. 

The crevi'S of most of the vessels (those, too, oi the largest class 
were enlisted previous to the declaration of war, and the depart- 



2 Ex. Doc. No. 24. 

raent lias no means of ascertaining the birth places of the persons 
composing them. 

The answer of this department, to the resolution of the House of 
Representatives, of May 29th, 1848, shows the number and places 
of birth of seamen enlisted during the war, and there is no reason 
to suppose that the same ratio would not apply to tliose engaged 
therein who entered previously. 

Much the largest part of the vessels in commission at the date of 
the declaration of war have been either in the Gulf or in the Pa- 
cific, for longer or shorter periods. 

The v»ho!e number of seamen composing the crews of the vessels 
in the Gulf of Mexico and on the Pacific coast, during the war, was 
seven thciusand. 

The terms of enlistments in the marine corps enable the depart- 
ment to communicate full information in regard to the mariiics 
employed on the Pacific and Gulf coasts during the war with 
Mexico. 

The annexed statements, marked A and B, exhibit the informa- 
tion called for by the resolution, so far as it is in the power of the 
department to furnish it. 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

J. Y. MASON. 

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 



Gil lyub 

D. Of D. ■ 



Ex. Doc. No. 24. 



STATEMENT 

Exnibiiing the number and places of birth of officers of the navy^ 
employed on the Gulf and Pacific coasts during the late war with 
Mexico. 

States, &c. Number. 

Maine « 34 

New Hampshire • 21 

Vermont ^^ 

Massachusetts ^^ 

Rhode Island 14 

Connecticut • '^^ 

New York 11^ 

New Jersey ^^ 

Pennsylvania ■> - • • ^^ 

Delaware ' 1^ 

Maryland > "^1 

Virginia 1'*" 

North Carolina 24 

South Carolina 24 

Georgia 1^ 

Alabama ^ 

Mississippi • • * 

Louisiana • o 

Tennessee • • 12 

Kentucky • • • • 1^ 

Ohio 22 

Indiana • " 

Illinois 3 

Missou'-i • • • • ^ 

Michigan 3 

Florida 2 

Iowa • 1 

District of Columbia 39 

England * 

France • • • • • ^ 

Ireland "^ 

Greece 1 

Spain , 1 

West Indies ' • 3 

Scotland 3 

South America • 2 

Sweden 1 

Unknown.., • ^ 

Total 856 



Ex. Doc. No. 24. 



STATEMENT 

Shoiiiiig the numher and places' of hirtk of mariners attacJnd to the 
Gulf squadron^ during t/te late war with Mexico. 

Places of bii til. * Number. 

Maine 22 

Massachusetts : 42 

New Hampshire . 12 

Yermont 8 

Connecticut 17 

Rhode Island 7 

Now York 163 

New Jersey 39 

Delaware , 6 

Maryland 47 

i^irginia 29 

District of Columbia 21 

Pennsylvania , 155 

North Carolina 2 

South Carolina 2 

Georgia l 

Ohio , 10 

KcnluLky 1 

Missis£<ippi 1 

Missouri , 1 

Michigan 1 

In d ian a 1 

Ireland .^ 261 

Germany llO 

Scotland 25 

England.. 35 

France 5 

Sweden 2 

Canada ,....,., .-«i4^iUii . . . ; 9 

Prussia 2 

Switzerland 3 

Poland 1 

Denmark 2 

New Brunswick 1 

Hollaud 1 

East Indies 1 

Belgium , 2 

Italy 1 

South America , 1 

Total 1050 



Ex Doc. No, 24. 5 

STATEMENT 

Showing the number and places of birth of marin&s attached to the 
Pacif.c sqtcadrG7i dmivg the late war with Mexico, 

Places of birth. Number. 

Maine '. 16 

Mas.'^acbusetts , , . . . , 26 

New Hampshire , 12 

Vtr m vo n t 6 

Couneciicut - 9 

Rhode Island 7 

New York 117 

New .Terse y 19 

Delaware 2 

Maryland 23 

Virginia 13 

District of Columbia 13 

Pennsylvania 77 

South Carolina ; , 3 

Island of Minorca .... 1 

Ohio 6 

Tennessee , 1 

Kentucky 1 

Mif=sissi})pi - 1 

M.ichigan , 2 

Louisiana , 2 

Ireland , 21 

Germany 7 

Sco f I a n d . „ ^ -. 4 

Enf^land 10 

Sweden , 1 

Prussia , , 1 

Nova Scotia 1 

Total . . , 402 

P. G. HOWLE, 

Adjutant and Inspector. 
Head ql^arters Marine Corps, 

Jidj. and Insp. Offi.ce. Washington^ Dec. 30, 1848. 



Note.— -In addition to tlio a'jove there were 18 sergeant-s, 9 corporals, 2 drummers, 3 fifers, 
and 285 privates on duty with the army in Mexico, under the command of Lieutenant Col. 
Watson. 



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